- Rough playground
- No adult supervision
- Re: True Confessions
- Soft surface
- Moonscape
- Lima Locomotive
- It's a mini-steam plant!
- Playground equipment
- $9,200
- Bullying.
- Recess the way I remember it!
- Even after using Photoshop
- Busty lady of shady lane
- Wincharger
- Fior D'Italia boarding house
- Got a dime?
- The Iceman Cometh
- Action Comics 23
- Get your popcorn ready
- Memories
- Wind generator
- Reading the sign on the photo first
- Where do they get their ice?
- "Thank you, dad"
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- Poster Boy
- Ex-Texaco
- Inside
- True love
- High cost of goodies
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Dead Wringer: 1920
"Union Barber Supply washing machine circa 1920." All I can say here is watch your fingers. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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All the Conveniences: 1920
Another view of the circa 1920 kitchen from the previous post. The complicated-looking range-and-boiler combination seems to have been popular at the time. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
- 8 comments
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Restoration Hardware: 1920
New construction with the latest in kitchens in the Washington, D.C., area circa 1920. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
- 19 comments
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The Bell Jar: 1924
Washington, August 18, 1924. "Miss V.P. Porter, Bureau of Standards." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
- 2 comments
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Learning Factory: 1930
Washington circa 1930. "Franklin School building exterior, 13th Street N.W." National Photo Company Collection safety film negative. View full size.
- 10 comments
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J. Edgar Hoover: 1924
December 22, 1924. "J.E. Hoover, Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice." A young J. Edgar Hoover, age 29, director of the government agency that we know today as the FBI. National Photo glass negative. View full size.
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Horse Show: 1909
November 1909. The 25th annual National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, in one of those ultra-detailed yet otherworldly views so characteristic of large-format glass negatives (8x10 inches here). View full size.
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Boy in the Box: 1909
April 1909. Anthony, Rhode Island. "One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. A Polish boy, Willie, who was taking his noon rest in a doffer-box." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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